New Study of Improvising Jazz Pianists Shows Similar Brain Circuits Used for Music and Language

Brain regions that process language are also involved in communicating through music.

When jazz musicians are improvising, the areas of the brain activated include those associated with syntax and spoken language, a new brain imaging study finds.



The study had jazz musicians ‘trading fours’: which is where musicians each improvise four bars of music...



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